Still, to this day, July 2, 2020 and this Republican Party President has done nothing, nothing whatever to even come close to punishing Russia and Vladimir Putin for putting a cash bounty on our American soldiers in the field in Afghanistan.
So either last week or a month or two ago this President Trump learned Russia and his buddy Vladimir Putin actually put a cash bounty on our own American soldiers over in Afghanistan, to be paid to Taliban members who killed them, again, our American soldiers.
The revelation was bad enough, certainly.
Then we learned our President hadn't done anything about it.
Nothing.
Did nothing whatever to punish Russia for putting a cash reward for killing our soldiers in the field.
At least as bizarre, if not more so, to this day, this Republican Party President Trump still, still has done nothing. Done nothing to punish Russia in any way.
Stunning.
Thanks, Mr. President.
Thanks, Republicans.
I ask again, how is this man still President?
No one can or does say it any better than an American Veteran.
The other nations of the G7 don't want Russia and Mr. Putin in the group but Mr. Trump is working for it. Our known, self-declared, public enemy but he wants them in the group.
Alrighty, then.
Next up, the President proposed this in early June this year.
Who, exactly, is that going to help but Russia and their leader Vladimir Putin?
And understand, this is from me, a guy who has said we need to shrink our defense budget drastically and it would still actually strengthen our nation.
Finally, there was this that broke this week from and in the New York Times.
A foreign leader and again, a known enemy of our nation, put a cash bounty on the lives of members of our American military. The administration knew about it...and did nothing.
Not only did they---he, President Trump--do nothing about this information but even after this story broke, to this minute, Trump has done nothing about it against that foreign enemy, Russia.
So again I ask---just who, exactly, is this Republican Party President Donald J. Trump working?
This President doesn't take any time to take action against our known enemy paying out bounties to kill our American soldiers in Afghanistan but he does take time out from his busy week to retweet this.
Finally here today, whether you agree or not, this is how Germany's Der Spiegel pictures our own United States presently, under this leadership so here's an international take.
"In this increasingly interdependent world, we have few pure “enemies” anymore: Iran, North Korea, Cuba, Al Qaeda, the Taliban. But we have many “frenemies,” or half friends/half foes. While the Pentagon worries about a war with China, the Commerce Department is trying to get China to buy more Boeing planes and every American university worth its salt is opening a campus in Beijing; meanwhile, the Chinese are investing in American companies left and right. President Hugo Chávez of Venezuela is the biggest thorn in America’s side in Latin America and a vital source of our imported oil. The U.S. and Russia are on opposing sides in Syria, but the U.S. supported Russia joining the World Trade Organization and American businesses are lobbying Congress to lift cold war trade restrictions on Russia so they can take advantage of its more open market."
Why do we have to recruit and train our allies, the Afghan Army, to fight? That is like someone coming to you with a plan to recruit and train Brazilian boys to play soccer.
If there is one thing Afghan males should not need to be trained to do, it’s to engage in warfare. That may be the only thing they all know how to do after 30 years of civil war and centuries of resisting foreign powers. After all, who is training the Taliban? They’ve been fighting the U.S. Army to a draw — and many of their commanders can’t even read. --Thomas L. Friedman, columnist, The New York Times
Link to original story here:
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/23/opinion/23friedman.html?src=me&ref=general
U.S. indirectly paying Afghan warlords as part of security contract
By Karen DeYoung
Washington Post Staff Writer
Tuesday, June 22, 2010
The U.S. military is funding a massive protection racket in Afghanistan, indirectly paying tens of millions of dollars to warlords, corrupt public officials and the Taliban to ensure safe passage of its supply convoys throughout the country, according to congressional investigators.
The security arrangements, part of a $2.16 billion transport contract, violate laws on the use of private contractors, as well as Defense Department regulations, and "dramatically undermine" larger U.S. objectives of curtailing corruption and strengthening effective governance in Afghanistan, a report released late Monday said.
The report describes a Defense Department that is well aware that some of the money paid to contractors winds up in the hands of warlords and insurgents. Military logisticians on the ground are focused on getting supplies where they are needed and have "virtually no understanding of how security is actually provided" for the local truck convoys that transport more than 70 percent of all goods and materials used by U.S. troops. Alarms raised by prime trucking contractors were met by the military "with indifference and inaction," the report said.
"The findings of this report range from sobering to shocking," Rep. John Tierney (D-Mass.) wrote in an introduction to the 79-page report, titled "Warlord, Inc., Extortion and Corruption Along the U.S. Supply Chain in Afghanistan."
Yeah, no kidding. I couldn't agree more.
Link to original story:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/06/21/AR2010062104628.html?wpisrc=nl_pmheadline
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